To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
10 best books like To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (Arthur Herman): The Map That Changed the World, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I), The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America, Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580, In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947, A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs, Ancient Civilizations of North America
The Map That Changed the World
| Author | Simon Winchester |
| ISBN | 0060931809 |
In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell -- clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world -- making it possible,...
| Author | David Hackett Fischer |
| ISBN | 0195069056 |
This book is the first volume in a cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural...
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
| Author | Caroline Alexander |
| ISBN | 0006532462 |
The bestselling author of The Endurance reveals the startling truth behind the legend of the Mutiny on the Bounty -- the most famous sea story of all time. More than two centuries have passed since Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lt. Bligh on a small armed transport vessel called Bounty. Why the...
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
| Author | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0606334696 |
In the late 1800s America arraigned a conglomerate of six vessels who set out to map the Pacific Ocean. Nathan Philbrick describes the suffering of the crew, thirst, immobilized in the 'victim's or equatorial regions, and irascible bad tempers. Illness was prevalent.
The worst thing was the lack...
| Author | Scott Weidensaul |
| ISBN | 0151015155 |
Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier—the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans.
Here...
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
| Author | Roger Crowley |
| ISBN | 0571232302 |
Cervantes, of the "Don Quixote" fame, was in one of these battles. He was a 24-year-old volunteer.
Now I know that hundreds of years ago the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding land areas were considered the center of the world and were a battleground for two great conflicting forces: the...
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
| Author | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0525426760 |
The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition.
Here is the story of the remarkable year leading up to the siege of Yorktown. It sets Washington against his traitorous nemesis Benedict Arnold and...
| Author | Christopher Clark |
| ISBN | 0674023854 |
Iron Kingdom traces Prussia's involvement in the continent's foundational religious and political conflagrations: from the devastations of the Thirty Years War through centuries of political machinations to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, from the enlightenment of Frederick the Great...
A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
Publisher's Summary
Most children go through a dinosaur phase. Learning all the tongue-twisting names, picking favourites based on ferocity, armour, or sheer size. For many kids this love of ‘terrible lizards’ fizzles out at some point between starting and leaving primary school. All...
Ancient Civilizations of North America
For the past few hundred years, most of what we've been taught about the native cultures of North America came from reports authored by the conquerors and colonizers who destroyed them. Now - with the technological advances of modern archaeology and a new perspective on world history - we are finally...
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
| Author | Thomas Asbridge |
| ISBN | 0060787287 |
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)—covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious,...
